DESCRIPTION.
Stem shrubby, a span high, round; branches numerous bending downwards, and ascending.
Leaves mostly by sixes, linear, obtuse, and roughish, bent downwards at the base, with ascending points; footstalks long, and pressed to the blossom.
Flowers numerous, in terminal bunches, in a horizontal direction; footstalks long, and coloured.
Empalement. Cup four-leaved; leaflets awl-shaped, keeled, and pressed to the blossom.
Blossom nearly cylindrical, flesh-coloured, slightly downy; the segments of the border are equal, and upright.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads; tips without the blossom, and two-horned at their base.
Pointal. Seed-bud turban-shaped, furrowed. Shaft without. Summit bordered, and hollow.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from April till September.